We, the multinational people of the Russian Federation, united by a
common destiny on our land, asserting human rights and liberties, civil
peace and accord, preserving the historic unity of the state, proceeding
from the commonly recognized principles of equality and self-determination
of the peoples honouring the memory of our ancestors, who have passed
on to us love of and respect for our homeland and faith in good and justice,
reviving the sovereign statehood of Russia and asserting its immutable
democratic foundations, striving to secure the wellbeing and prosperity
of Russia and proceeding from a sense of responsibility for our homeland
before the present and future generations, and being aware of ourselves
as part of the world community, hereby approve the Constitution of the
Russian Federation.